We hate our criminals more than we hate bad laws and bad conditions.
We’d rather dispose of convicts than rehabilitate them. We’d rather force them to work in chain gangs for government property. We’d rather put them in solitary confinement torture. We’d rather force jailed suspects to pay tens of thousands in bail cash. We ritually kill people who are already serving their life in prison.
Oh, and all of this is a “favor” to convicts.
We have an unforgiving, tyrannical criminal justice system. Even if PoC weren’t present in this country, even if this country and its criminal justice system were exclusively populated by White European Americans, it would still be just as terrible and tyrannical compared to other European-majority countries.